effrontery

英 [ɪˈfrʌntəri]

美 [ɪˈfrʌntəri]

n.  厚颜无耻的行为; 傲慢鲁莽的举止

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BNC.34635 / COCA.35532

牛津词典

noun

• 厚颜无耻的行为；傲慢鲁莽的举止
  behaviour that is confident and very rude, without any feeling of shame

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 厚颜无耻;放肆;粗鲁
  Effronteryis behaviour that is bold, rude, or disrespectful.
  1. One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
     那人十足的厚颜无耻让人们吃惊得无话可说。

英英释义

noun

• audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
  1. he despised them for their presumptuousness
  Synonym:presumptionpresumptuousnessassumption

双语例句

• How can he have had the effrontery to say "piss off!" to you?
  他怎么会这样无耻，竟然对你“滚开！”呢？
• They had the effrontery to tell me that I was a real dag.
  他们厚颜无耻地说我没有品位。
• He admired the effrontery with which she bargained.
  他挺佩服她讨价还价的那股泼辣劲。
• Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery.
  流言蜚语不再是无聊恶毒之徒的资源，而是成为一种奋力和无耻追求的行当。
• Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
  只有生来以自我为中心的人才会厚颜无耻、持之以恒地去写散文。
• In the Imperial Japanese Fleet it was suicidal effrontery.
  在日本帝国舰队中，这是自杀性的胆大妄为。
• The effrontery of his deceptions inside and outside the conference room could be enraging.
  他在会议室内外放肆的欺骗手段简直令人怒火中烧。
• At this point I expected to have to quell a revolt, or at least quieten things down while those who objected to this effrontery walked out.
  那一刻，我预期自己将不得不平息人们的反驳，或者至少在那些反对这种放肆行为的人起身退场之时，让会场平静下来。
• He has achieved this partly through sheer verbal effrontery, as in his badmouthing of George bush.
  他有今天的成就，部分功劳是他那完全口头的厚颜无耻行为，正如他恶意诋毁美国乔治？布什总统。
• He arrived late, was silent all evening and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!
  他姗姗来迟，整个晚上一声不响，然后竟有脸抱怨我看起来很无聊。